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26 avril 2012

A blue and white 'lingzhi' fruit bowl. Xuande Mark and period

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A blue and white 'lingzhi'  fruit bowl. Xuande Mark and period. photo Sotheby's

sturdily potted with shallow rounded sides rising from a straight foot, painted in bright cobalt-blue tones with leafy lingzhi scrolls between a double-line border around the rim and upright lappets skirting the base, all above a ruyi-shaped scroll encircling the foot, inscribed with a six-character Xuande mark below the rim; 28.6cm., 11 1/4 in. Lot 94. Estimation 150,000-200,000 GBP. 

PROVENANCE! Sotheby's London, 2nd March 1971, lot 163.
Sotheby's London, 6th July 1976, lot 148.

EXHIBITED: Mittens Rike, Borås Art Museum, Boras, 1985, cat. no. 202.

NOTE DE CATALOGUE: Two closely related bowls in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, were included in the museum's Special Exhibition of Selected Hsuan-te Imperial Porcelains of the Ming Dynasty, Taipei, 1993, cat. no. 45, together with bowls of this form but decorated with a dragon, lotus scroll and the bajixiang, cat. nos 42, 43 and 44 respectively; and another from the Holger Lauritzen collection in the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, is published in Oriental Ceramics. The World's Great Collection, vol. 8, Tokyo, 1982, pl. 220. Two bowls of this type were sold in our Hong Kong rooms, one from the collection of Donald S. Morrison, 20th May 1986, lot 16, and the other, 21st May 1985, lot 85, and again at Christie's Hong Kong, 27th November 2007, lot 1736; and a third, from the collection of E. Allen, was sold in these rooms, 6th July 1976, lot 148.

The purpose of these thickly potted shallow bowls, an innovation of the early fifteenth-century, is discussed in Chinese Porcelain. The S.C. Ko Tianminlou Collection, Hong Kong, 1987, pt. II, p. 53, where it has been suggested that they served scholars as brushwashers, were used for playing dice in the palace or for cricket fights which was a popular game in the Ming dynasty. Bowls of this form are more commonly known decorated with flower scrolls; see a Xuande mark and period example illustrated in A Panorama of Ceramics in the Collection of the National Palace Museum. Hsuan-te Ware I, Taipei, 2000, pl. 51; and another, in the collection of the Department of Archaeology, Beijing University, included in the exhibition Treasures from a Swallow Garden, Arthur M. Sackler Museum of Art and Archaeology, Beijing, 1992, cat. no. 149

Sotheby's. Fine Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art. Londres | 16 mai 2012, 10:00 AM www.sothebys.com 

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